The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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Dante recommended I read his favourite author so I started on of the books he had at his place but it didn’t grab me.  Then he brought down Way of Kings and I was in by the second page.

I ordered it from the library of course and away it went ....all 1200 pages devoured in a few days.  Fast paced adventure.  Exciting fight scenes and magic.

Brandon Sanderson has matured in his delivery and does not insult his readers intelligence by describing the ordinary.  I think you can safely assume that what he doesn’t describe is pretty mundane and not relavent to the story line.  

Great read.

The Joy of Hate by Greg Gutfeld

Wow, this guy says it like it is.  His libertarian views are somewhat extreme but if you can follow his logic - he makes common sense.  Our world is run on an ideal of tolerance right now.  If you aren't tolerant you are the scum of the earth.

He speaks out about the muslim culture and gay rights.  It's the attitude that everyone is certainly allowed (and really must ) have an opinion about.  But lets just live side by side and not bug each other about it.

Oh, yeah, and he's funny too.

Here's a quote from the introduction - see you don't even have to read very far to get this one.

'That's the funny thing about tolerance:  it's actually an avenue for bad behaviour, instead of respect for the good stuff.  It's why, in the name of tolerance, there are so many mass murderers in the world running countries.  We have now made it a rule to respect those who refuse to respect us.'  - Greg Gutfeld   'The Joy of Hate'

eleanor & park

Author Rainbow Rowell is masterful in her portrayal of young love.  She has a way of making it so immediate to my 50-plus ears.  Especially because a lot of the story happens on a school bus.  Those of us who rode on one can relate.  The clique-i-ness of the back of the bus kids.  The unspoken assigned seats....

Two unlikely young people capable of living outside their odd home lives and forging a relationship....very cool

Mary by Janis Cooke Newman

This is a fascinating book about the life of Mrs. Abe Lincoln.  Not being american I didn't know about her other than her existence.

Regarding her first sight of Abe, 'the ugliest man upon which I had ever laid eyes,'  How could it be worse after that...?
Apparently she was the first to be called the First Lady.

I liked how she took a list of statistics of a woman who lost 3 children, loved seances, loved shopping....

And changed her from a pariah living in an insane assylum into a believable and misunderstood character.

Baby & Kids Quilts (Best of Fons & Porter)

Super cute baby quilts, wouldn't you know it came from Fons & Porter.  I hate their website but love their shows and now apparently their books.

Super-cute Pincushions/Shape Workshop for Quilters

Ok, both worth a quick look.

The pincushions are really of cute but who is going to make all those peas for the pod??

ShapeWorkshop for Quilters from Fat Quarterly the e-zine folks.  It's interesting but just for looking...

Jesus by Deepak Chopra

Very nice.  He takes a difficult perhaps intimidating personage to write about but he's already done Buddha so I guess he's OK with it.

Blue Moon Promise by Colleen Coble

I just looked back to the last one I read by Colleen and realized that this one has the same problem.  I think it is the covers -- I love them.  They are somehow sooo attractive to me I scoop them up.  She starts strong but kind of fizzles but I did manage to read the whole thing this time.

Free Motion Quilting with Angela Walters

I think she says with instead of by because of the great way she has of making you think you could actually do this with her help...I love it.

Look what I Found

So I was reading 'Fresh Air' on my Kindle and came across the words, 'skipjack corum' in a sentence with little context I googled the words and lo and behold the first hit was the book -- wait for it-- called 'Fresh Air'...upon scanning the other hits I realized that it probably was referring to eats as in a type of tuna and that corum seeds are a type of spice similar to cumin....interesting....but of course I had to look at the pdf of the book I am actually reading and one thing led to another and I landed here...

Who wouldn't want to read this? Here's a hint, chocolate...

So I did and it was cool in a nostalgic sort of reminds me of the library in our one room school (a bookcase actually)  It smelled like this books looks - old...

By the by this is a pic of the Weeks Plantation house we visited in Louisiana to put you in the mood...

Fresh Air by Sinclair Lewis

Fresh Air is a travel book written in the 20's in the common vernacular.  It is really cute and a bit of a love story I guess.

T and I were watching Boardwalk Empire on HBO and he noticed Jimmy reading this book while travelling by train to Chicago... of course I had to look for it at the library. They didn't have it but it was a free download for my kindle.  Sweet.

Follow the adventures of Claire driving her father and herself in an imported Gomez-Deperdussin with an American made body.  Yeah almost another language. 

When I mentioned it to my Mom she recognized the author. 

J.D. Robb, Time of Death

More candy, this one has 3 books in one...

Yeah...

a lot like chocolate

The Lightkeeper's Bride by Colleen Coble

I liked that has a cool job like a telephone operator.  But as with Colleen's other book that I read recently, called Lonestar Sanctuary, I found myself loosing interest.  Maybe the stories are just not long enough for a full length novel.  I don't know I just started to loose it around 2/3 through.

Facebook Marketing/

I am very fascinated by what is happening in the marketing end of the world.  I'd like to understand how the internet will convince me to look at their ads.  Ok, not counting those really cute dog ads at Subaru...

Then I thought that the facebook one was too specific for me and this one might be more readable...

Quilt Fiesta by Cheryl Lynch

Surprising Designs from Mexican Tiles indeed.  I was very impressed at how much these fairly simple blocks looked like the Mexican tile walls and floors we saw in Mexico.  Very interesting.  I think she did an extremely good job of the fabric selections that carried out the designs.

Open Road's Best of Paris

Yes, I am planning a trip

A Cup of Friendship by Deborah Rodriquez

I am just getting into this.  I can barely put it down to write this.  Deborah does an amazing job of setting the scene of a part of the world I have never been to.  But I have been to Turkey, I wonder if her cafe is on a street like this...

Wow, now I have read the whole thing.  It was just too good to put down.  I suspect that it is a pretty good insight into life in Afghanistan.  It fit with my current idea that sometimes people need to figure things out for themselves.  

Orphan Blocks / Quilt a Gift

These two books were ones I picked from the library website but both fell a little short.

The orphan blocks one didn't help much with the single orphan my sister sent me from Texas.  And the baby Quilt a Gift for little ones was too fussy....

I love Patchwork by Rashida Coleman-Hale

What great reading or maybe just looking...

Three Quilting Books

Circle Play is an old friend.  I just get it from the library again and again.  So simple but well thought out idea.  I will get to trying this I am sure....someday....

More Loose Change was not so great.  Okay, in that all quilting books are, but... the content was a bit done over....

Quilting Among Friends was very good.  Lots of inspiration.  Somehow it appeals to my sense of 'I could do that but what if I just changed this...'